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May-26-2005 05:26
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Some of us have interesting reasons to pick a detective name. What is yours?

jstkdn which some people don't realize right away stands for JuST KiDding! It is something I tend to say a lot in real life after a lot of sentences. A good friend of mine in the US had jstkdn as a license plate of her car, so I wasn't that inventive myself.

My previous other agent was PM, which stands for Project/Program Manager, my profession in real life.

My only detective that I currently play with is freelancermountaineer. Only because Freelancer was taken. Sidney Bristow in the Alias series uses two call signs freelancer and mountaineer.

Apr-15-2006 13:37

I choose ThinkLove because it just sounded intuiging and mysterious, and it popped in my head, because I was just looking at that band's site. I thought it sounded cool. Also I love hearts [♥] and that went well with the name too!! Hence, Detective Think.Love♥

Goodbye for now,

Apr-18-2006 14:04

Nothing too complicated; Octavian Reed sounded like a good detective name to me. That and it fit the character that popped into my head when I was deciding his statistics. :)

Apr-19-2006 16:05

I did one of those fun surveys once. According to the survey, to find your detective alias:
DETECTIVE ALIAS:
(Favorite Baby Animal + Where You Went to High School)
Puppy Notre Dame.

So I didn't choose Puppy Notre Dame. Tintin Dallas is from:

SOCIALITE ALIAS:
(Silliest Childhood Nickname + Town Where You First Partied)
Tintin Dallas

Apr-20-2006 00:40

funny because tintin is actually the name of the main guy in a mystery comic.

He had a cowlick...that's all I remember. Oh wait, he also had a dog called snowy. woof.

Apr-20-2006 02:14

*lol* - in Denmark Tintin's dog is called Terry - because well, it's a terrier :D

Apr-20-2006 04:28

well, they call me peck since I was little, and that's exactly what's suppose to mean in spanish, "Little" (pequenho), cause I was born after 7 months instead of 9, weighing 1,9 kilos...but now I'm 90kg (200pounds) lol!!!!

Apr-23-2006 12:35

Eh...I just liked the name! I thought it sounded...detective-ish. lol

Apr-23-2006 13:52

Hmmm... let me think...

Lynoria is a very beautiful name I created from the name "Annoria." While I was naming my detective, I was scrambling to remember "Annoria"... but I couldn't! So I just brainstormed for two minutes and got Lynoria after remembering how it was pronounced. I thought the name "Cavendish" blended nicely with "Lynoria," so I picked that.

And there you have it. Strange, but very well-thought. ;-)

Apr-25-2006 07:44

Well my first detective was Lady Eileen. I love that name. I used it when I played the old computer game - Moonmist.
So when I first saw this site that is what I chose.

Then sadly, when she was retired, I chose my next favorite. Maddie Hayes, obviously because of the TV show Moonlighting.
I think it fits me now. Though the picture I have still makes me think of eileen.
I do love Grace Kelly though.